Podocarpus platyphyllum Greenwood 1987 (podocarp)

Coniferales - Podocarpaceae

Full reference: D. R. Greenwood. 1987. Early Tertiary Podocarpaceae: Megafossils from the Eocene Anglesea Locality, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 35(2):111-133

Belongs to Podocarpus according to D. R. Greenwood 1987

Sister taxa: Podocarpus araucoensis, Podocarpus fildesensis, Podocarpus inopinatus, Podocarpus sinuatus, Podocarpus stantoni, Podocarpus travisiae, Podocarpus witherdenensis

Type specimen: Holotype: 1816, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a leaf (Cuticle). Its type locality is ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine, which is in an Eocene channel mudstone/sandstone in the Demon Bluff Formation of Australia.

Distribution: found only at ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine

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